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World’s Most Sought After Employers

03 Monday Nov 2014

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Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Unilever

When we think of searching for information on the internet our first choice invariably is Google. These days, the word ” Google” has become a verb with people asking you to ” google it”.  Guess what? There’s much more to Google than this. More people chose Google as the Most Sought After Employer too as per a report from the professional networking site, LinkedIn.

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“Like, I Like Your Like!”

31 Sunday Aug 2014

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Facebook, Shakira

Isn’t it interesting that some words seem to become fashionable in a manner of speaking and they are used till they are overused? The word “like” springs to mind. When I was a kid at school, we didn’t know the meaning of “love” or perhaps didn’t quite express our friendship with the other sex as being one involving love. The word that was commonly used was, ” like.”!  One often heard, “He likes her but she doesn’t like him back!!” Every culture has its own nuanced language. In our lingo of those faraway times, if the love (or like if you will) was reciprocated, it was said that “He got a ‘Yeah.” If, on the contrary, his overtures were spurned, he was said to have got “the chop!”

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Kirthiga Reddy, Fast Company and Creative People

02 Friday Aug 2013

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Facebook, Fast Company, Kirthiga Reddy

I have always liked the Fast Company for being ahead of the curve. Their content is always interesting and they report on cutting edge developments in business and technology. It was with great interest that I read their latest list of 100 Most Creative People in Business 2013. Continue reading →

Being on Facebook

04 Thursday Oct 2012

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Facebook, Facebook Pages

If you aren’t yet on Facebook, tell me, where are you? News just comes in that Facebook has topped one billion active users. That’s something, isn’t it? Some of the stats. there are mind-boggling.

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Complementary Skills

05 Tuesday Oct 2010

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Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg

At top management level, the last thing a good CEO would want is to have a team of “yes”  men, or women, as the case may be.  To be really effective, top teams should have members with complementary skills. Shrewd CEOs have realized the value of avoiding the temptation of hiring clones who think like them and talk like them.

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